Absence—that common cure of love.

About Lord Byron

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George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and...

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I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Opinions are made to be changed—or how is truth to be got at?

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Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

—Gayle Forman in Just One Day

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In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

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The absence of the dead… is their way of appearing.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

—Thomas Fuller

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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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Absence - that common cure of love.